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Carl, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30011. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Carl within Barrow County

Population over time

2 figures

Carl fell from 255 to 209 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010255
2020209-46 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Carl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 449 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 34 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning73
Arson/incendiarism34
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-GWINNETT-001
25 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARROW-004
19 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GWINNETT NORTH-001
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism7.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barrow County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carl: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barrow Stone CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Barrow County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carl in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000LightningCarl$50,000The Barrow County News reported that lightning started a fire in the attic of a home located on Briarwood Road near Carl-Cedar Hill Road in the Briarwood Subdivision. Fire damage was mainly confined to the attic and a front room of the house, while smoke and water damage was noted elsewhere. No one was injured as the house was vacant at the time of the incident.

Every storm recorded in Barrow County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Auburn1.0 miles15
Whistleville1.7 miles18
Cedar Hill2.7 miles15
Barrow Heights3.7 miles17
Algernon (historical)4.3 miles15
Cains Courthouse (historical)4.9 miles15
Winder4.9 miles17
Mulberry5.7 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CarlAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2902172The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354992. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.